Any casual observer in Brazil could say that, with helicopters transporting modular rigs on land in the Amazon and the huge ultra-deepwater rigs dotting the seascape, it looks as though the country has met with an invasion of drilling rigs. The reason? The 2016 Olympic host country is moving ahead on the straightaway in an energy marathon. And the country’s largest oil and gas company, Petrobras, is in its own sprint to become one of the world’s five largest integrated energy companies.

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